chemoterapie

Forms

chemoterapie f (uncountable)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from German Chemotherapie, as DLRM, DEX, MDA2 and Wiktionary state.^[2][3][4][1] Marcu adds French chimiothérapie as a second model.^[5] By surface analysis it is chemo- and terapie.^[1] The German word is formed from chemo- and Therapie (“therapy”).^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The word is recorded in DLRM (1958) for the treatment of diseases with chemical substances that destroy microbes or stop their growth.^[2]

Semantic evolution

Later dictionaries extend the definition to substances that destroy diseased cells, the use against cancer.^[4] DEX 2009 defines it simply by the variant chimioterapie, which follows the French form.^[3][5]

Timeline

• 1958 – the entry in DLRM.^[2]
• 1998 – the second edition of DEX, MDA2's first record.^[4][6]

Meanings

Noun

1. chemotherapy: the treatment of diseases with chemical substances that destroy microbes or diseased cells or stop their growth.^[4][3][1]

Related words

• chimioterapie
• terapie

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Academia Republicii Populare Romîne (1958), Dicționarul limbii romîne moderne, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne
3. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 176
4. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 373
5. ^ a b Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. chemoterapie
6. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan” (1998), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române, 2nd ed., București: Univers Enciclopedic